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A briar is a thorny wild shrub, often a wild rose. That gives Briar a genuine nature-word connection rather than a fanciful symbolic translation. English dictionaries trace the word back to Old English, while leaving the ultimate origin uncertain. Spoken as two syllables in standard British dictionary pronunciation, it has a softer sound than its prickly botanical reference might suggest.
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